Seeing that the "Thorn King" Jihua was progressing smoothly, Zhang Yan naturally did not dare to slack off. On the one hand, she found Zhou Yihan, who was abducted from "Yuqingguan" and is now known as Zhou Yun, to teach the other party how to assassinate Wang Kunjun at the wedding banquet, and cheer him up. On the other hand, he carefully planned with his brother and discussed how his group should get out. In Zhang Yan's opinion, no matter whether Zhou Yihan can kill Wang Kunjun this time, the "Qingyuan" brothers of the Beiping Army and the entire Chai Zhou court will be extremely angry, and the "Dark Feather Hall" will not turn Langzhou and even the entire Jinghu land upside down. When the time comes, the introducer who recommended Zhou Yihan to perform singing and dancing at the wedding banquet will naturally bear the brunt and become the object of suspicion and investigation. If you wait until after the incident, it will definitely be difficult and dangerous. Therefore, the best way to get out is to withdraw before Zhou Yihan's side acts. Even if it is too late to withdraw from Jinghu, the farther away from Langzhou is better.

It's just that as Liu Pinglan's friend, leaving when the other party is about to get married, if there is no good reason, it is obviously unjustifiable - saying goodbye without saying goodbye is too abrupt, it is easy to arouse Liu Pinglan's doubts, and then arouse the vigilance of Qian Yuanshan and even Wang Kunjun and others, which is not conducive to the assassination operation and is not within the scope of consideration.

The brothers and sisters of the Zhang family thought about it and felt that in this case, only the reason that the mother of the family died suddenly and the father was bedridden due to excessive grief, and the brother and sister needed to rush back to their hometown immediately to deal with the aftermath, take care of their father and keep filial piety for three years. After all, it is the duty of children to take care of their fathers and keep filial piety for their mothers, and it is said that they can't participate in their friends' weddings, and even the emperor in Kaifeng City, unless he is an indispensable minister of the imperial court, he can't easily deprive his courtiers of the right to go home and keep filial piety. Moreover, the parents of the Zhang brothers and sisters have long since passed away, so using the death of their mother and the serious illness of their father as the reason, there is no psychological burden on them at all.

The brothers and sisters of the Zhang family are trying to find a way to leave Langzhou ahead of schedule, but Zhou Yihan is bent on avenging his father, and he has long been out of the way to his life and death. In fact, since Zhang Yan revealed to him some time ago that he planned to send him to assassinate Wang Kunjun, Zhou Yihan has already been prepared to go and never return. In her opinion, no matter whether her assassination attempt succeeds or not, it is impossible to leave the wedding banquet alive. You must know that the location of this assassination was in Qian Yuanshan's pacification envoy's mansion. Even if because of the wedding banquet, the Qian Mansion will not be as heavily guarded as before, but Jinghu is a newly occupied place after all, and there are important ministers of the court such as Wang Kunjun, Zhang Weixin, and Xu Shaoan attending the wedding banquet, and the personal guards at the wedding site will never be much less than usual. Besides, even if there is no personal guard, in terms of martial arts alone, only one Qian Yuanshan is not something he can deal with.

When I was in the "Yuqingguan", I had heard the master of Yuqingzi say that the "Qingyuan" brother was the second disciple of the old immortal of his master, Fuyaozi, and had learned the "Wujigong" created by the old immortal. Although she has never fought with Qian Yuanshan, she has also heard Sister Zhang, who had secretly observed her, say that she can feel that she is by no means an idle person from the other party's figure, pace, and killing aura on her body. Moreover, Sister Zhang had secretly seen several fists and kicks in Liu's Mansion to make Liu Pinglan happy, and it could be seen that the other party had indeed been instructed by a master and taught by a famous teacher, and his martial arts practice was quite pure. He may be able to take advantage of the surprise and attack to give the unsuspecting Wang Kunjun a fatal blow, but it is impossible to escape Qian Yuanshan's crazy counterattack in a face-to-face confrontation. Therefore, if you go this time, you will definitely die. As for being captured alive, it was not in Zhou Yihan's jihua at all, before going to Liu's mansion to rehearse, she had secretly brought a huge poison, and was ready to take it immediately after completing the fatal blow to Wang Kunjun, not giving the other party a chance to capture her alive. Therefore, before leaving the Zhang family, Zhou Yihan did not ask the question of whether there was any backup for the assassination, let alone inquire about how the brothers and sisters of the Zhang family and other companions would evacuate, and after receiving Zhang Yan's promise that he would try his best to take care of his brother Zhou De'an and protect him, he went with the maid ring who came to the Liu Mansion to lead the people without hesitation.

Although Zhang Yan recommended Zhou Yihan to enter Liu's Mansion to perform singing and dancing in order to assassinate Wang Kunjun, his evaluation of the latter's singing and dancing ability was not a random toution. After all, Liu Pinglan herself is a master who can sing and dance, if the person recommended to her does not have real knowledge of singing and dancing, how can she pass her level. Fortunately, since Zhou Yihan brought her younger brother to join her, Zhang Yan tried her best to teach this girl who wanted to avenge her father all the skills needed to become a secret agent, including singing and dancing. Thanks to the good physical flexibility and coordination practiced by practicing martial arts all year round, a natural good noise, and his own strong comprehension and expressiveness in dance, Zhou Yihan not only learned quickly, but also was able to play and innovate on the basis of his master's teaching, so that the local famous actors who were invited by Zhang Yan to teach his singing and dancing were ashamed of themselves, and called him "better than blue". Therefore, Zhou Yihan appeared in front of Liu Pinglan, but he sang a few words and danced a few times casually, which amazed the other party. Not only did he immediately decide to stay with him to attend the wedding banquet ten days later, but he also asked him to instruct other kabuki in the house.

On the eighth day of the third lunar month of the first year of Jianlong, five days after Zhou Yihan entered Liu's mansion, Zhang Yan appeared in front of Liu Pinglan with a sad face. Under Liu Pinglan's concerned inquiry, Zhang Yan first told the other party that she had just received the news that her mother in her hometown of Xingwangfu in the Southern Han Dynasty had died of illness, and her father was also bedridden due to grief. Then he proposed to the other party that he and his brother needed to go home immediately to mourn and take care of their father. In this way, I will not be able to attend the wedding of my good sisters, and I hope that the other party can forgive me.

originally thought that after listening to his story, the other party would definitely come up to comfort him and support his decision to return to his hometown immediately. But after waiting for a long time, there was no sound. Just when Zhang Yan looked up at Liu Pinglan a little strangely, she found that the other party was looking at her with a look that was both a little annoyed and a little playful, and only after a moment did she ask coldly: "Hall Master Zhang, when are you still planning to deceive this girl?" ”

Although Zhang Yan was shocked when she heard the words "Hall Master Zhang", she would not admit it easily until she figured out how much the other party knew, but pretended to be unknown and ignorant, and asked, "What is my sister talking about?" Who is 'Hall Master Zhang', sister, how can I lie to you? ”

Seeing that Zhang Yan was still pretending to be confused with herself, Liu Pinglan couldn't help but laugh angrily: "Hall Master Zhang is worthy of being one of the hall masters of 'Feiyan Hall', and his acting skills are first-class. It's just that now that you have come to the end of this play, it will only add to the laughing stock if you do it again. Look at what this is. After speaking, Liu Pinglan grabbed two notices from the table and threw them to Zhang Yan.

Although she had roughly guessed the above content, Zhang Yan still looked at Liu Pinglan who seemed to be smiling there vigilantly, and picked up the notice document under her feet to watch. As Zhang Yan expected, these two proclamation documents were the official documents of the Chai Zhou Imperial Court wanted their brother and sister and their subordinates. The official document not only stated the identities and crimes of their siblings and their subordinates, and the red reward for them, but also included the drawings of their siblings and some of their cronies. These drawings are very realistic, and anyone who has seen the Zhang family brothers and sisters will recognize them at a glance.

So far, Zhang Yan has calmed down. While folding the official document of sea fishing and placing it on the case next to her seat, she said coldly: "Sister does this, aren't you afraid that my sister will kill people and kill me for self-preservation?" ”

Liu Pinglan was not frightened when she heard this, but said calmly: "As soon as my sister entered the house, my sister has sent a henchman to wait outside my boudoir. As long as there is a little movement in the room, Yahuan will call for help. I'm afraid that before you get out of this room, dozens of Liu Mansion guards will rush over and surround the embroidery building. Even if you are good at it, sister, you don't want to escape from the house. When the time comes, not only will your sister's life be in jeopardy, but your brother and your subordinates will also be in danger. What's more, your attempt to assassinate the fifth, seventh, or starling brother will be frustrated. ”

"How did my sister know that my sister was going to assassinate Wang Kunjun?" Zhang Yan was shocked when she heard this, and asked subconsciously. However, as soon as the words came out, she felt that it was inappropriate, but it was too late to take back the words she had spoken.